Seagate Technology has announced a line of Backup Plus storage devices that offer one-click computer backup plus the ability to integrate with Facebook and Flickr to download or upload photos and video. Backup Plus devices work interchangeably with Windows and Apple computers, and include a Universal Storage Module (USM) connector which enables consumers to update
Western Digital has announced My Net, its first line of wireless home networking products. My Net features new WD FasTrack technology that uses real-time analysis to identify and prioritize bandwidth for entertainment services like Netflix, Hulu Plus, VUDU, YouTube, Xbox LIVE, and Skype. The top-of-the-line My Net N900 Central will also feature an integrated 1
Mellanox Technologies has announced that its RDMA technology for InfiniBand running Windows Server 2012 RC Hyper-V achieved a benchmarked 10.36GB/sec throughput with 4.6 percent CPU overhead. This performance was achieved on Supermicro Servers and JBODs, OCZ’s Talos 2R SSDs and LSI MegaRAID SAS 9285 storage controllers featuring LSI Fast Path I/O acceleration software, all connected
At Microsoft TechEd, Violin Memory and Microsoft are showcasing a new all-flash “Cluster-in-a-Box” Private Cloud solution with Windows Server 2012 running natively on the Violin 6000 platform. The Violin is a 3U system specified to deliver one million IOPS with 4 GB/sec of bandwidth, potentially replacing multiple racks of traditional disk arrays. Multiple “Cluster-in-a-Box” arrays
Fusion-io has announced that Cisco will be making an ioMemory mezzanine card available to customers who are using Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) blade servers. The solution which is based on Fusion-io’s ioMemory2 platform and will give UCS B-series blade servers a substantial performance boost, ideal for those using the Cisco servers for scalable application
PMC has announced its 12Gb/s SAS Flash Manager (SFM-12G) for enterprise SSDs. This will be the industry’s first end-to-end 12Gb/s SAS solution, from protocol controller to SSD controller. According to PMC, the SFM-12G delivers more than 300,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) in a 2.5” SAS SSD. When paired with PMC’s SPCv 12G, manufacturer benchmarks indicate
HP has announced Data Protector 7, a data management software solution designed to operate at the largest data storage scales. Powered by HP’s Autonomy Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL), Data Protector 7 delivers a unified platform for storage assets via federated deduplication. HP also announced updates to StoreOnce federated data deduplication. Both solutions leverage Autonomy
SanDisk today introduced the Lightning line of PCI Express (PCIe) Solid State Accelerator (SSA) cards. Lightning cards can be installed into any four lane (x4) or greater PCIe slot to provide more rapid access to frequently used data and to manage I/O-heavy workloads. With compatibility in mind across multiple platforms, the SanDisk Lighting PCIe SSA
OCZ Technology Group has announced its Agility 4 SSD series, featuring a 6Gbps SATA III interface and the Indilinx Everest 2 controller platform recently introduced in their flagship Vertex 4 SSD series. According to OCZ benchmarks, the Agility 4 delivers transfer rates of up to 400MB/s and up to 85,000 random write IOPS. These benchmarks
STEC has announced Nexenta’s certification of an all-STEC SSD configuration for the NexentaStor ZFS-based storage platform. NexentaStor will use ZeusRAM SSD to store its write log and ZeusIOPS SSD for the read cache, meaning up to 5X better performance for database indexing and email exchanges, 8X reduction in cost per user, and 4X reduction in
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